User:Bluewave

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gtr-2 This user is an intermediate guitarist.

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rec-2 This user is an intermediate recorder player.

Contents 1 The Bluewave principles of Wikipedia 2 About me 3 Awards 4 What I like about about Wikipedia 5 What pisses me off about Wikipedia 6 Work in progress

[edit] The Bluewave principles of Wikipedia

1. Only make edits using your own login name. I once considered making an anonymous edit and decided that I should have the courage of my convictions! All my edits are attributed to Bluewave.

2. Try not to add the one thing you know about a subject as a completely unconnected sentence. I have breached this principle sometimes, but try hard not to!

3. I'm sure I'll think of some more

[edit] About me

I'm an unreformed dabbler who is fascinated by the whole idea of online collaboration.

I use the name Bluewave on Wikipedia. I do other writing (sometimes for money) under my own name, but decided to use a different name for Wikipedia.

I have written (or at least started off) articles on:

• Daniel Bacheler composer and lutenist
• Steve Benbow British folk guitarist
• George Bowes 18th century coal magnate
• Peter Brookes Cartoonist
• Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (Academic lawyer)
• Chicken Shack
• Diz Disley
• Fantasia Lindum (1971 album)
• Jane Gomeldon (the 18th century writer)
• William Edward Gumbleton (Irish horticulturalist)
• William Edward Hickson (Educational reformer)
• Bill Leader (legendary record producer)
• Les Cousins An influential folk music club of the 1960s in Soho, London
• Chris Maslanka (Broadcaster)
• John Mayall (Blues legend)
• Percy Scholes (musician, writer and critic)
• Christopher Simpson (the 17th century viol player and composer)
• The Young Tradition (English folk group of late 1960s)
• Tír na nÓg (band) (Irish band of the early 1970s)
• Simon Tunsted
• Various Pentangle (band) albums

...and I have made substantive contributions to:

• Hearth
• Martlesham Heath
• Martlesham
• God Save the Queen
• Hanged, drawn and quartered
• Aldeburgh Festival
• Arnold Dolmetsch
• Clewer
• Guildhall, Windsor
• Recorder
• Amazing Blondel
• Classical music of the United Kingdom
• Davey Graham
• Leon Rosselson
• Bert Jansch

...and some minor edits to lots of other articles.

I've also contributed to the wikifying of around 100 articles.

I would like to think that the quality of my contributions is improving with practice, but others may disagree!

[edit] Awards

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For all your work bringing the Bert Jansch article up to GA status...Well Done!!! Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 20:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What I like about about Wikipedia

• It is free
• It's a brilliant experiment in collaboration and consensus
• No advertising
• There's no-one in charge

[edit] What pisses me off about Wikipedia

• To write great biographies of people in music and literature, you have to make value judgements but, in Wikipedia, these are often weakened or eliminated in the name of NPOV.
• People who change the occasional word in an article to align with their own regional preferences for the English language (where this is not justified by the subject of the article).

[edit] Work in progress

My sandbox

Not sure how I ended up editing God Save the Queen. I detest the song: the words are awful and the tune is even worse (a galliard played at funerial speed makes me cringe). However, when I saw the article, I was appalled at some of the obvious misinformation and ended up getting quite interested in researching published sources and getting a bit nearer the truth.